I do, but it's packed away at the moment. When the kids move their stuff out I might be able to set it up again.

Dave, the links you're showing are actually the links to the webpages and not the pics themselves. But if you right click on the picture and select "View Image Info", it'll show you the actual link to the .jpg file itself. Once your have that link, just wrap the command [img] before and [/img] after the .jpg link and the picture will show. I'm made those modifications to your links and the pics showed up as seen below.

Quote from above:

"The piano is usually all the way on the wood floor but to get a more full shot I had to push it to the middle of my 20 X 20 room.


Different angles:



Me practicing away. I now have a floor to ceiling bookcase in this corner that doubles very nicely as a diffusor:

I own a harpsichord!

There is a pedal on my story and clark that lowers a bar with little felts on it, that have some sort of glue or something, that when you hit it, it makes a twack sort of sound on the strings.

I would call it more of a late 1700s forte piano, but its kinda like a harpsichord!


I would LOVE to own one! But they are so gosh darn expensive! The cathedral has like 15 of them. One for every practice room, and in the music teachers offices and a few in the cathedral itself.

The harpsichord is one of my favorite instruments! Id love to get the Roland C30 digital harpsichord some day.

Here is my amazing playing instrument! This is what you get when your stuck on a boat for 5 weeks at a time. Yes that is cardboard that I made for a music rest, and yes, absolutely every one of those 49 keys are spring loaded to the max.

How do you play it you ask? Well I have to put the keyboard on my lap.

Looks functional enough given your parameters but I'd avoiding learning the tune "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

i really like the picture of the minimalist 12 foot Seiler

Did someone say 12 foot seiler!?!? I wana see! I must have missed that one!

It's 'only' a semi-concert grand.

I play the harpsichord with my DP, but not so often...

This looks a bit like my room, but my walls are boringly white...

Oh no, my piano is only um well its 1,76 cm, i believe that is 5'8 or something. So you have been to Norway ^^ thats nice.

I would love to own a concert grand however for now, i enjoy my Kawai ^^

... says the owner of a small "music room grand" (that's how Steinway calls their model B) Just kidding!

Honestly, though, the bass sounds it size, approx. 8 feet (7'10 1/2'' to be precise). At the time (1998), Seiler didn't make a 9 foot piano, and so they designed the model 240 to be their concert grand. They added mass to the piano body in order to magnify the sound. Their claim was that this piano sounded like a full-flung 270cm piano. But you know how it is with these claims. They're mainly used for marketing reasons.
My model 240 is actually a bit heavier than e.g. the Steinway D and about as wide. Many European grands are heavier than their Steinway breathrens in general. That seems to be a difference in construction for I have also heard the opposite argument that if you reduce mass you can magnify the sound. I guess each maker makes their claims. This has also to do with the fact the Europe and America use different woods for the inner/outer rim (beech wood/mahogany vs. hard rock maple).

I have not played the Seiler 9 foot piano, but my 240's bass is definitely different from the pianos in the 220 cm size (e.g. the Grotrian 225 which I could compare recently) as it has more of that nice growl that I personally love.

Last but not least, the United States should really go metric! That'd be so much easier for all of us. No feet, fingers, and fingernails anymore to express length...

Dave Ferris, I love your Steinway D. I love the beautiful old-fashioned design/shape of the D. It is oh so sexy! I am sure it sounds fantastic.

Not to derail the thread, but there are many studies done about how much "not going metric" is costing the US both in sales and in re-tooling expenses.

Regards,

By the by, Horowitzian, it's raincheck time if you know what I mean! Haha! Seriously, show us your practice space! I am curious!

It has been a long time since I have seen the inside of a US Middle School.

I remember being taught we were about to go metric in grade school. I'm 57. I'm not holding my breath.

No, no! It's OK! This comment totally made my day.



Interesting! I was unaware of the history behind Seiler. So they have a 9 footer now?

I know the feeling about the bass on the large pianos. I have regular access to a couple of Steinway D's, so that gives me my 'big piano fix'.

+1000000 on the metric system.

Yup, here it is: Seiler Modell 278

Unfortunately, one cannot learn much about it online except for the separate spec sheet.
Anyway, sorry to everybody for taking this thread slightly off topic.

It's beautiful! Love to get my hands on one.

Well, following currawong's good example, I have tidied up my apartment and it looks twice as big now!
I am extremely orderly with documents, books etc., but for example if I come home I throw the mail on the sofa etc. I am sort of lazy with practical things....
I am waiting for my Steinway now that the apartment is so tidy...

In good time mate. Camera has dead batteries...and I'm busy practicing, because I have a new teacher now. No more procratinating.



WTF?

Here is where I get to practice! Its a Steinway B.

Ooooo, nice! I'll bet it is a lot of fun to be able to practice in a veritable concert hall. Lovely church, too.

Do you play there for services?

The absence of a prominent religious symbol in the first picture makes it look like a church built to worship the piano - maybe a fitting image for the piano forums! Just kidding of course.

Here is my practice space.

An inherited 1951/52 Steinway model "40". I am the second owner

[img]http://dmsynck.webs.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=73040865[/img]

That's a good point. While it's a great setup for a piano recital, I have to wonder about it for religious services. Our organ is in the chancel area, and the piano (a decrepit Steinway which really should be replaced) is between the chancel and the first row of seats. This really does look like they are worshiping the piano!

@ Horowitzian: Yeah, it certainly beats the beat up baldwins in the tiny practice rooms!

@-Frycek: No, I do not, someone else has been doing it for longer than I have been at school.

@ Charleslang and wodt: They should be worshiping the piano! The chapel is the only one we have on campus so it does not try to cater to one. Although you cant see it in the photo, the stained glass has several religious symbols on it. I should start my own piano religion though!

OK. The fact that it's a campus chapel changes everything. Thanks for explaining.

Just curious. Is there an organ? If so, where?